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Remsen
Iowa communities and farmers are adopting conservation practices that lead to cleaner water by keeping agricultural run-off from entering water supplies.
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Webster County
The Boneyard Hollow in Dolliver Memorial State Park includes amazing geologic layers.
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Jackson County
White-nose syndrome is a disease in bats that has the potential to alter the ecosystem of the caves.
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Boone County
Nine different owl species call Iowa home and are found in different regions of the state, each with a unique look and habitat.
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Maxwell
Several habitats support a wide variety of plant and animal life at Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt.
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Pisgah
The Loess Hills formation took thousands of years to form, and is a very fragile and unique collection of dust and silt.
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Maxwell
Ripples are visible from a variety of sources and hitting a variety of objects in the relatively still waters of Chichaqua.
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Aplington
Purple loosestrife is an invasive species in Iowa that grows rapidly and impacts wetlands
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Aplington
In Iowa, plastic snow fences are often strategically placed in yards and alongside roads to improve road quality in the winter.
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Hampton
Wild parsnip is an invasive species that can be dangerous to both humans and native plants.
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Sioux Center
A woodchip bioreactor is used for nitrate removal from agricultural runoff.
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Linn County
This program in Eastern Iowa supports extending solar power use in the area.
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Cedar Rapids
Common sounds may be different in an environment when there is snow cover as compared to when there is not.
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Des Moines
Agricultural fields require specific amounts of fertilizer to maintain yields, however forests maintain biomass without the use of additional fertilizers.
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Red Oak
Boreal chorus frog songs are an excellent first sign of spring's arrival.
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Monona County
The Loess Hills of western Iowa are a unique landform, the formation of which has resulted in characteristic "steps" in the hills.
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Cedar Rapids
Indian Creek Nature Center land management planning includes surveying butterfly populations, and data shows how the 2020 derecho is impacting those survey results.
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Davenport
Rusty patched bumble bees were listed as endangered in 2017. This is just one species of bumble bee that has been on the decline.
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Ackley
Using goats to control invasive trees, shrubs and other plants is a unique solution for maintaining remnant prairie.
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Spirit Lake
This time-lapse video captures two monarch caterpillars feeding on a milkweed leaf, and illustrates the caterpillars' role in the ecosystem as they consume plant matter.
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Stacyville
Milk is collected from cows and, after a while, the milk forms two different layers. They look somewhat similar but, when poured out, the layer on top is thicker than the layer below.
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Waverly
Dry run creeks are a strategically placed design solution for flood mitigation.
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Ames
"Al dente" means "to the tooth" in Italian and refers to the ideal consistency of pasta when cooked. Besides a more appealing taste, cooking pasta "al dente" provides inherent nutritional value.
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Oxford
The Johnson County Conservation Board and Iowa DNR dredged the lake in F.W. Kent Park and created interconnecting catch basins to reset its water quality, using testing to monitor the progress.
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Sioux Center
At sunrise, the sun is coming above the horizon and creates a beautiful mix of many different colors. There are many different reasons that these colors are so vibrant in Iowa specifically.
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Rock Valley
Sundogs are colored spots of light visible around the sun during cold temperatures.
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Spirit Lake
During extreme cold temperatures, the air temperature can have an usual effect on boiling water.
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West Des Moines
Clouds are made up of trillions of water droplets and are an essential component of the water cycle.
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Woodward
When the seasons change, animals have ways to adapt to the different temperatures and weather.
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Sioux City
The visible colors of sunsets are the result of many different natural and human-made factors.
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